"Historically, senet made it first known appearance in the Third Dynasty mastaba or tomb of Hesy-re, the overseer of the royal scribes of King Djoser at Saqqara, dating to approximately 2686 BC. Unidentified senet-like boards have also been found in Predynastic and First Dynasty burials at Abydos and Saqqara and date to about 3500-3100 BC. These and a number of First Dynasty (3100 BC) senet board hieroglyphics indicate that the game may be even older. Annotated depictions of people playing the game also appear on the walls of later Old Kingdom (2686-2160 BC) mastabas among other daily life scenes."

Excerpt from Peter A. Piccione, In search of the meaning of senet, 1980

Here are two senet boards in the Royal Museum of Ontario.The third is preserved at the Brooklyn Museum, New-York. It is made from blue faience and marked on behalf of Amenhotep III (1390-1353 BC).It measures 21.5 x 8 x 5 cm.

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